Since the nineteen-seventies, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest at the largest black church on Chicago’s South Side, has been fighting to bring economic justice to his community. At the same time, he is dealing day and night with the victims—and perpetrators—of violence in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, who wrote about Pfleger in the February 29th issue of the magazine, accompanied him to the funeral of a gang member in the South Side, where Pfleger took the opportunity to preach against retaliation.
The white priest who has dedicated his life to serving Chicago’s largest African-American parish.
